The ZERO ELEGIES

The ZERO ELEGIES

“In The Zero Elegies, Pamela Kallimanis re-kindles the voice of tragedy, the poetics by
which the community knew itself in ancient times, with a sharp contemporary edge. Her
work expands subtly and with vertiginous authority, from the personal to the social to the
universal. Kallimanis has forged a structure of dazzling originality – her book’s arc is like
no other. The reader will see our age with new eyes.”–Dennis NurkseA selection:

THE EXPLODING STARS

Eventually, everything connects.- CharlesEames

exploding stars
golden lead
fiery as uranium red
formed out of the blast
of one star triggered
the in
fall of gases
induces the birth
of another star
when we look
in visible light
with moving matter
the star wisps
now make up the shell